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| #708276 in Books | Richard Tuck | 2002-08-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 4.40 x.40 x6.90l,.35 | File type: PDF | 168 pages | Hobbes||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A Good, But Not Great, Introduction|By Casey N.|Thomas Hobbes is one of the more obscure of the important philosophers of history. He is, of course, best known for "Leviathan", and its political theory of the absolute authority of the sovereign ruler.
What Richard Tuck does well in this book is to locate Hobbes within a larger philosophical context which explores in
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was the first great English political philosopher, and his book Leviathan was one of the first truly modern works of philosophy. Richard Tuck shows that while Hobbes may indeed have been an atheist, he was far from pessimistic about human nature, nor did he advocate totalitarianism. By locating him against the context of his age, we learn that Hobbes developed a theory of knowledge which rivaled that of Descartes in its importance for t...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction | Richard Tuck. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
